www.motioncontroltips.com: Robot-related software today offers cross-compatibilities to take mechanical concepts into validated robotic motions and deployable control code. To begin work, robot-controller simulation and programming defines joint and cartesian trajectories, kinematics, motions, singularity handling, and the coordination of robotics with other workcell systems. Offline programming and CAD-to-path software converts process definitions into motion trajectories so reaches and orientations are feasible (and without collisions). It interfaces with robot motion kernels but doesn’t execute real motion.
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I think that this is an interesting if predictable development. Perhaps the most surprising part of the article for me was the mention of standards being developed to allow for better interoperability of robots from different manufacturers. While the benefit for such a thing is clear I would have expected manufacturers to try to keep their ecosystems closed to force customers to choose one manufacturer for all their robots rather than being able to mix and match. Another thing that stood out to me was the mention of computer vision. Even with the increased accuracy that AI brings to computer vision software I would have expected it to still be too unreliable to trust for such an application. Given this unreliability I'm glad that industrial machines are still required to have other safeguards in place. As shown in the regulations, when it comes to safety there should never be a single point of failure.
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